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• Vinson & Elkins hires top energy & infrastructure talent from Herbert Smith in Tokyo

  Apr 27 2012 Vinson & Elkins has scored a high profile recruit in energy and projects specialist James Watson. Watson joins Vinson & Elkins as a partner at the firm’s Tokyo... more

• Paul Hastings launches Houston office after hiring local talent

  Apr 26 2012 Paul Hastings has launched a new office in Houston after the hire of three energy-focused transactional partners from local firms. Greg Nelson joins Paul Hastings... more

• Akin Gump hires energy and global transactions expert from Vinson & Elkins

  Mar 21 2012 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its energy and global transactions team in Houston with the hire of partner Stephen Davis from Vinson & Elkins. Davis is... more

• Lateral hiring among large firms heats up

  Mar 08 2012 The lateral hiring market is booming, with large law firms eagerly scooping up talent in the hope that it is followed by a solid book of business. The AM Law Daily... more

• Sidley Austin to launch in Houston, US

  Feb 15 2012 International law firm Sidley Austin is set to launch a new office in Houston. The office will be led seven partners hired laterally from other Houston firms including... more

• Skadden tops list of strongest law firm brands

  Jan 31 2012 Brand research company Acritas has compiled a list of the strongest brands in the US and global legal services market. Their study, which surveyed 902 clients, of... more

• Vinson & Elkins and Wachtell Lipton lead $1 billion hostile takeover of Tulsa-based SemGroup

  Oct 28 2011 Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline is intent on the acquisition of rival Tulsa-based company SemGroup. but when its $1 billion offer was rejected by the board... more

• Chinese firm Jun He Law Offices continues expansion with Weil Gotshal hire

  Oct 19 2011 Chinese firm Jun He Law Offices has boosted its Beijing corporate practice with the hire of partner Jasson Han from Weil Gotshal & Manges. Han represents... more

• Three firms advise on Sinopec's $2.1b resources co acquisition

  Oct 11 2011 Three firms have advised on the $2.1 billion acquisition of Canadian oil and gas exploration company Daylight Energy by the China National Petroleum and Chemical... more

• Merit list: law firms that offered jobs to 100% of summer associates

  Aug 17 2011 Above The Law has posted a list of firms that have offered jobs to 100 per cent of summer associates, readying themselves to start naming and shaming those firms that... more

• Norton Rose to lose four partners in Middle East

  Aug 08 2011 Norton Rose is set to lose four partners from its Middle East practice to other firms. Regional managing partner Campbell Steedman, a corporate lawyer based in... more

• Texas-based Vinson & Elkins to pay spring bonuses

  Apr 21 2011 Texas based firm Vinson & Elkins, has announced that it will pay spring bonuses. The announced bonuses are below the scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore: • Class of... more

• Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett set to launch in Houston after Vinson & Elkins Hire

  Apr 12 2011 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is set to launch a new office in Houston after the hire of Vinson & Elkins capital markets partner Robert Rabalais. "Opening in Houston... more

• Akin Gump and Vinson lead $1.55 billion Texas shale sale

  Mar 24 2011 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Vinson & Elkins have taken leading roles on the deal for the $1.55 billion sale of shale assets by Andarko Petroleum to a subsidiary... more

• Gibson Dunn adds five partners in Dallas

  Jan 20 2011 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has boosted its Dallas office with the hire of five new partners. M&A partner Jeffrey Chapman, litigation partners William Dawson,... more

• Vinson & Elkins remembers the staff at bonus time

  Jan 06 2011 Vinson & Elkins did not forget their legal support staff when handing out end-of-year bonuses in December, and now the firm has announced that there will be an extra... more

• Vinson & Elkins leads $1.01bn deal between Energy XXI and EXXonMobil

  Nov 24 2010 Energy XXI Ltd. has finalised a deal to buy oil and natural gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico from ExxonMobil for $1.01 billion. When the transaction is complete at... more

• Vinson & Elkins advise Concho Resources in $1.66 billion energy deal

  Jul 22 2010 Vinson & Elkins has taken a lead role in the $1.66 billion cash and securities deal for the acquisition of Marbob Energy by oil and gas company Concho Resources.... more

• Reliance announces $1.3 billion Shale deal: Baker Botts,Vinson & Elkins and Thompson & Knight advise

  Jun 28 2010 Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries has agreed to pay Pioneer Natural Resources Co. and its partner Newpek LLC a sum amounting to $1.3 billion for a 45 percent stake... more

• Wachtell, Jones Day, Vinson & Elkins in Reliance’s $1.7bn deal

  Apr 13 2010 Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) has signed up a five-year development plan with US based Atlas Energy to develop a better part of the Marcellus Shale held by... more

• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Jones Day and Vinson & Elkins lead on $1.7 billion energy deal

  Apr 12 2010 The latest deal over the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia sees India's Reliance Industries in a $1.7 billion joint venture with US company Atlas... more

• Six law firms to assist in BP's $7 billion deal with Devon Energy

  Mar 12 2010 Six law firms will assist with BP’s $7 billion acquisition of assets in Azerbaijan, Brazil, and the Gulf of Mexico from oil and gas producer Devon Energy.... more

• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer hires three litigation partners for US practice

  Mar 11 2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has boosted its US litigation capability with the hire of three new partners. Marshall Fishman (from Kramer Levin Naftalis &... more